[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 112177] New: NPER function not working as anticipated following example in excel ( which works in google sheets)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112177

            Bug ID: 112177
           Summary: NPER function not working as anticipated following
                    example in excel (which works in google sheets)
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.4.0.3 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: bvargo at gmail.com

Description:
In order to calculate the number of periods, t, for an amount x to reach an
amount y, given an interest rate of z, the text book that I am using shows the
following equation in excel: =NPER(z,0,-x,y) and returns a value t, e.g:
=NPER(0.12,0,-25000,50000)=6.116 years The same function does work properly in
google sheets and Excel. In Calc, it returns Err502.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.=NPER(0.12,0,-25000,50000)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
ERR502

Expected Results:
6.1162553741997



Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Also see information at the ask.libreoffice.org site:  
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/128333/nper-function-not-working-as-anticipated-following-example-in-excel-which-works-in-google-sheets/?answer=128384#post-id-128384

Version: 5.4.0.3 (x64)
Build ID: 7556cbc6811c9d992f4064ab9287069087d7f62c
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.19; UI render: default; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); Calc: group



User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36

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